Scrooge transformed: his generosity, Fred's dinner and Bob Cratchit's rise.
Key quotations: 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy', 'I don't know what day of the month it is!', 'Not a farthing less', 'I'll raise your salary', 'He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man', 'who did not die, he was a second father', 'knew how to keep Christmas well'.
Different readings: a complete change of heart, or charity that leaves the Cratchits relying on one rich man's goodwill.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
